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aspencerhall.bsky.social
So very here for this article #DisabilitySky #CripSky
lizziereed.bsky.social Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · Oct 27
Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review

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#bipolar #Sociology
Bipolar time is a metaphor for the complexities of times as we variously experience them, and as it intersects with other times and demands. It provides a way to index the components of time, of illness, of accelerating contexts, which construct the experience of failure. Bipolar time describes the non-rhythmic space where failure is everywhere and nowhere, personal-affective, contextual and structural. It is not just a metaphor for personal struggle; we offer it as a critical tool to analyse how times move – and how (or whether) we move against/with time – in ways which reinforce inequalities. Bipolar time offers a mechanism to explore how failure is attached to certain bodies and why ‘reasonable adjustments’ or accommodations for disability do not preclude the painful affective experience of delivering work on time, slowly, or not at all
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
altibel.bsky.social
Q: AI translation is heralded as great cause it can help with inclusivity but ofc it's far from good, takes job of translators, ÷ feeds the hype. On live interpreting events, some argue against but others say it's better than nothing. How does the community feel about this?
#DisabilitySky #CripSky
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
Probably the most personal thing I've ever written, about living in crip time, about precarity, and how crip scholars grinding in precarity are further marginalized by academia's timezones (and rhetoric of timeliness)

#MedievalSky #CripSky #DisabilitySky

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Alicia Spencer-Hall Chapter 5 Stopping the Clock(s): Precarious Times in the AcademyKeywords: bereavement, crip time, Douceline of Digne, precarity, medieval hagi-ography, temporalityI don’t remember what time it was when I got the news. It was a bad time, though, I remember that sure enough. I was elbow-deep in writing a chapter for an edited collection, steeling myself for one final push to bring my scholarly baby into the world.1The deadline was tight—it’s always tight—but I could make it, if I could just keep going. I was tired and I hurt; I had slogged away for long hours this past week or so of writing. I had shifted time usually reserved for self- care—for having breaks, eating lunch, taking exercise—into the work column of my schedule. The irony of the situation was not lost on me. I was writing a chap-ter on chronic pain and illness in the Middle Ages, underscoring the political ur-gency of recognizing ourselves, as members of the crip community, in historical
October 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jasminemay.latinsky.social
Be sure to check out @emilyladau.bsky.social on the August 19th #podcast ep “Disability, Disclosure, and Authenticity in Higher Education” from HigherEdJobs!

#HigherEd #CripSky #DisabilitySky #Disabilities #Workforce #JobMarket #Employment #DisSky #Accessibility

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S5 Ep80: Disability, Disclosure, and Authenticity in Higher Education
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September 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
aspencerhall.bsky.social
Cannot wait to read @parkerchronicle.bsky.social's new book, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature"

👉 Open Access here press.umich.edu/Books/L/Ligh...

#MedievalSky #CripSky
Front cover of Leah Pope Parker's "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature", with a saint with a golden halo nestled within a beautiful gilded border on a pale manuscript background From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. Light of the Everlasting Life argues that early medieval Christian eschatology, as manifested in Old English literary texts, was a crip eschatology: a theology of the afterlife that relied upon disabled bodies and concepts related to disability in order to convey promises of resurrection and salvation. In addition to demonstrating how literature manifested theological approaches to the afterlife, Leah Pope Parker articulates the ways of thinking about bodies and disability that were available to ordinary early medieval people, many of whom experienced their bodies in ways that resonate with what we call disability today, but who rarely appear in the historical record. By analyzing Old English texts, including Alfredian translations, Ælfric’s saints’ lives, and poetry from the Exeter and Vercelli Books, Parker introduces novel ways of characterizing disability’s effects in literature. “Spiritual prosthesis” reveals rhetorical, narrative, and theological reliance upon disability to convey the promise of a Christian afterlife. “Systems of aberrance” emerge as a result, in which bodies marked as deviant—including disabled, monstrous, heroic, saintly, and dead bodies—form a network of embodiments that reinforce the narratives they inhabit and that of Christian salvation history. Locating crip eschatology in early medieval literature, Light of the Everlasting Life rewrites standard histories of disability, of the body, and of medieval Christian eschatology.
September 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
We had to leave all our community, friends + the area we loved behind - but it was worth it to live somewhere like this.

Here I can get around, I can use the bathroom, I don't have to worry about falling. And I even get to be in nature again 🫶

#disabled #CripSky #WheelchairUser #ChronicPain
A wheelchair user in the distance propelling down a dirt path, bright green trees border both sides and blue sky is just visible through branches in the top left. A view between tree branches and brambles, showing two bodies of water. More trees are visible by the water and in the distance, above them the sky is blue and almost cloudless.
August 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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August 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
softgritspoonie.bsky.social
#wheelchair #disabledsky #cripsky
I run on caffeine chaos and a wheelchair
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
softgritspoonie.bsky.social
#spoonie #medlife #PillBoxPosting #cripsky
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July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
theradr.bsky.social
Connecting disabled jobseekers with accessible and remote jobs!! 👇👇👇

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#disabledsky #cripsky #chronicallyill #madsky #neurodiversesky

(Ha, they all sound like Russian patronyms)
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July 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
prettttystoned.bsky.social
cripsky♿️ >>>>>> bluesky🔵
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
xavierbeloved.blacksky.app
Shit I get but now you Unc it’s gon stick 😂 Welcome to Cripsky
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May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Come for the crip ancestors (including disabled saints!), stay for the generative juxtaposition of medieval Christianity and Buddhism. #medievalsky #disability #cripsky
The cover image for Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages is a fragmentary wooden corpus of Christ on a blue-grey background—see the editors’ intro for discussion of this artwork!
April 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
me: *wonders why I'm constantly injured, flaring, or in so much pain*

also me: *decides to self propel backwards up a hill because I'm bored whilst waiting for @better-than-botw.bsky.social to return from somewhere inaccessible* 💀

#cripsky #disabled
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April 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
neurodivengeance.bsky.social
Came across this great photo in Disability Intimacy & immediately thought of the 4 of Cups! This piece of art has improved my day, as has reading about the cripcentric collaborative creative process that made it.

darren lee (dee) miller, ‘Travis in Pearls’ (2022)

#CripSky #TarotSky
A composite photograph of Travis Chi Wing Lau seated on a white claw foot tub in the middle of a bathroom with wood floors and walls painted with vertical stripes of light blue, mustard yellow, and brown. In the background, there is a toilet, a white sink, a small rug, and a mirror, which shows a reflection of Travis that is another portrait in which he is seated in the same position but turning to look at the camera over his left shoulder.
April 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
Hubby nipped out to the shop what feels like forever ago, and I unexpectedly REALLY need to pee.

Sure wish I lived in an accessible house where I could get myself to the bathroom when needed 🫠

#cripsky #disabled #NEISvoid #AccessibilityMatters
April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Finally finished reading through my proofs! A favorite passage from ch. 6.
Citation: Me, pp. 214-15 of Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky
“It is not controversial to say that there is no Christian salvation without the Crucifixion. It is less common, however, to highlight what should be an obvious corollary: there is no salvation without injurious impairment, and the presence of impairment evokes the specter of disability, even if the body in question—Christ’s—may not warrant the label of disability. Early medieval English Christians did not read Christ as disabled, or any medieval parallel thereof, but they did put his wounded body in conversation with other forms of bodily fragmentation, injury, and even disability in order to collectively construct an eschatological imaginary of the embodied afterlife.” “The conceptualization of Christ’s body in conversation with impairment and disability makes his body crip.”
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
I love a lot of lines in chapter 5, “Cynewulf’s Wounds,” that make little sense out of context, probably including this one.
Citation: Me, p. 199 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky
“The text stands in for the poet’s body, the dispersal and reassembly of runes cripping the path to the afterlife body. The runes perform disabling and prosthetic roles, containing both the certainty of fragmentation in the grave and the promise of the Resurrection.”
April 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Back at it: I remember writing this line in a Madison cafe for the dissertation version, but it’s still my favorite in chapter 4.
Citation: Me, p. 158 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“The potential consequence of being eaten, for Matthew, are undoubtedly unappealing: the eschatological hope for bodily resurrection would be alimentarily converted into scatological waste.”
March 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
okamiiphotostudios.bsky.social
"Not Mikey banging with the CripSky. Long before CripSky was a thing."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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March 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
okamiiphotostudios.bsky.social
"Welcome to CripSky, Senñor TASK."

Y'all must be having a time on that other app. I don't miss the B'. I do hope all the chat broddies and homies are all safe + doing good. 👍🏽
March 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
An important reminder, and something that's incredibly easy to forget when you're disabled...

#chronicpain #medtrauma #disability #disabled #cripsky
March 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
It's tough when the pain from doing stuff like this (that my mental health really needed!) then feeds into the burnout.

Being disabled is constantly trying to tightrope, & balance out your physical / mental needs alongside symptoms, flares, triggers etc...

#cripsky #chronicpain #autistic #disabled
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
dinowheels.bsky.social
When the burnout is beginning to lift, so you feel mentally strong enough to sacrifice yourself to pain for a while...and you get to *actually craft* for the first time in a month 🥹

#autisticburnout #chronicpain #cripsky #knitsky
A white man's hand in the upper left corner, holding a circular pink plastic loom with blue and white wool wrapped around the pegs at the top. Hanging from the bottom of the loom is the brim of a white and blue knitted wool hat. A white man's hand resting palm up with 4 small glass pendants balanced on it. From left to right the first has a yellow section at the top and bottom, with a glittery blue square in the middle. Next pendant is very small, it has a white background and then an orange blob of colour at the top, red in the centre, and green at the bottom. Third pendant has what resembles a fried egg on it, with the yellow 'yolk' in the shape of a loveheart, to the right of the pendant at the top and bottom are red dots. The final pendant is the smallest of all, it features an orange blobby line at the top and bottom, and a glittery black oblong in the middle.
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Favorite line from ch.4 (after the cat joke that shall remain secret). About the portrait of St. Æthelthryth in the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold. Citation: Me, p. 138 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“If the artist carved a deeper line here with the intention of depicting the scar, then in doing so he took on the role of the leech Cynefrith, inscribing a mark into the saint’s neck; the pale pigment of the saint’s skin parted before the artist’s tools like flesh before the physician’s blade.”
March 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM